Casey

Day 1 ** Dear Journal,
 * Louisiana, Road Trip Journal

We finally got to Slidell, Louisiana. It took us 17hours and 20 minutes!! We are at the Bayou Sauvage Wildlife Refuge; we stayed there for almost 2 hours! I got really close to a white alligator it was so cool! My dad and I went canoeing it was a little scary. So far I am having a great day.

After that we went to New Orleans Jazz Historical National Park. We got in for free, but we didn’t get free parking. I learned on how New Orleans became the birthplace for jazz. This day is getting better already.

After we lunch, we went to the French Quarter Festival. I listened to some Cajun music while eating some spicy gumbo. After we walked around for a couple hours, we went to Louis Armstrong Park. When we got there, I got to see a statue of Louis Armstrong. I learned that Louis Armstrong was a famous jazz player from New Orleans.

Well I need some sleep because tomorrows going to be another big day.

P.S. Louisiana is awesome!!!!

Day#2 **
 * Louisiana Road Trip Journal

Dear Journal, It’s the second day in Louisiana! My dad and I went to Dillard University today. We went and saw “Cat on the Hot Tin Roof.” It was at 3:00pm. It was $12 for each ticket!! After, my dad and I saw “ Cat on the Hot Tin Roof.” We went to the Louisiana Superdome.

After a long drive we finally got to the Louisiana Superdome! They were having a decorating festival and we bought some curtains for our house. They were blue with some darker blue flowers on them. After that my dad and I went to a restaurant and got something to eat, I had some Gumbo and, boy was it spicy!

When we finally get my mouth cooled down we went to the State Capitol! We went to the book festival at the State Capitol. I learned that a lady loved telling stories to little children. She always loved reading. I also heard a couple stories and read a couple of my own. Well I am really tired Good night.

P.S. I love Louisiana!!


 * Louisiana Road Trip Journal**
 * Day 3 **

Dear Journal, I went to the Old State Capitol. It was so cool! I got to learn about this 150-year-old building. I also took some pictures of the Mississippi River. After that short drive we got to the Louisiana State University!

I watched a Laptop Orchestra perform it was pretty cool. It took 3 hours! After the performance, I was exhausted! Well it took us a while to get to the last place of the day, so I took a little nap. We took a little boat tour. It was so fun but it was so long! After we had some supper and went back to our vehicle. We found a hotel and fell asleep right away!

P.S. Louisiana Is The Best place EVER!!


 * Louisiana Road Trip Journal**
 * Day 4 **

Dear Journal, First we went to the Council for the Development of French. It was a 2-hour class all about French! At first I freaked out how will I know what they’re speaking how will I understand them! But I figured out it’s a class where they teach how to speak French. After the class we went to Catahoula Lake.

It took us 2 hours to get there! But I took a nap on the way. The thing is I found out they were shooting duck. I don’t like duck! But I was lucky we didn’t get any. Before we left we had some lunch, then we went to the Kistachie National Forest.

We went to Kistachie Forest and took a long peaceful walk through the forest. It took us 5Hours to go through the forest. Kistachie is more than 604,000 acres. That’s a big forest!!

P.S. Today I got a lot of exercise!!


 * Louisiana Road Trip Journal**
 * Day 5 **

Dear Journal, Today I went to Louisiana Tech University. I watched Fiddler on the roof. It was amazing, I loved it all. It took 2.5 hours to finish. Finally, after it took us 2 hours just to get out we left to go to Starlight Plantation.

When we got to Starlight Plantation. I was looking forward to see some ghosts. We went through and looked through the rooms and I think I saw one GHOST!! It was a little creepy, but at the same time I am so excited! After my very long drive to Driskill Mountain, we finally got there.

When we got to Driskill Mountain, I asked my mom and dad if we could take a hike up the beautiful mountain. They said we could. It took us 3 hours to get to the top. When we got up there we had some supper then we had a race down the mountain and I won. Victory! Well we finally left went to a hotel and watched the sunset while eating ice cream.

P.S. I LOVE Louisiana!!


 * Louisiana Road Trip Journal**
 * Day 6 **

My mom and me left early today to go to Sci-Port Discovery Center. Today is mother’s day! So mom got in for free but she had to pay for me! That was not fair. After the show we went back and picked up my dad and went to Barnwell Gardens and Arts.

When we got to Barnwell Garden and Arts we saw ‘dancing Fountains’ it looked the water was dancing. It was so cool! Then we took a stroll down Red River and looked at some art. The art was magnificent! We also looked at the serene gardens. They were beautiful flowers, humongous trees and plenty of birds! Then we had lunch and went to Highland Park.

After we got to Highland Park we took a long trip through the countryside. After that we went to the lake and went fishing. We fished for 2 hours! We finally caught 3 big catfish and had them for supper with some fruit. After supper I fell right to sleep.

P.S. Louisiana is AWESOME!!


 * Louisiana Road Trip Journal**
 * Day 7 **

Dear Journal, Today we went to Forest Park Cemetery. We looked around it was a beautiful place. It had nice, luxurious seats. They were so comfortable; I almost fell asleep in them! Then there was a magnificent carpet lying down. They had a handcrafted podium for speeches. And they had a beautiful stand to hold up the coffin.

Then after that we went to a restaurant and had some Jambalaya. Then we went back to where we were staying, packed up our stuff, and started heading home it took us the whole day to drive back, but, it didn’t seem long to me because I slept practically the whole time anyway. Then we were finally home. I had such a fun time in Louisiana.

P.S. I had a fun time in Louisiana!